Sr. Food Scientist

Job Title: Sr. Food Scientist

Location: Aurora, CO metro area

Salary: $90-110,000 + Benefits

Kelly Scientific is leading the search for a Sr. Food Scientist to support a leading premium dessert company based in Aurora, CO. They craft artisanal, scratch-made desserts at scale, combining culinary innovation with the finest real ingredients.

The Food Scientist will work directly with the culinary team in making robust formulas that can be scaled up for the Commercialization team. Candidate will ensure new items are built and launched successfully, existing items are documented accurately and act as a liaison between Culinary Team, Production, Sales, Finance, Quality Assurance, and Supply Chain. Will drive technical projects to meet business initiatives focusing on new product development, quality improvement and cost improvement.

Why you should apply:

• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, paid vacation, holidays, and retirement contributions
• Opportunity to join a high-growth organization with a strong reputation in the food industry
• Collaborative and innovative work environment with cross-functional teams

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide project leadership in the development of new formulations, on proper use of functional ingredients and creation of robust formulations on the bench.
• Work on multiple interdisciplinary projects, developing and implementing plans, and coordinating resources to achieve goals.
• Design and execute experiments, analyze, and interpret data to make sound technical recommendations for specific projects.
• Develop product and process specifications, ensuring training and transfer of specific knowledge to QA and Operations.
• Support Commercialization, Operations and QA to resolve ingredient, formula and process issues and manage product/process changes.
• Provide technical support to Culinary team on product information and process capability.
• Collaboration with cross-functional teams on implementing new products, new equipment or new processes.
• Provide formula and process specifications with Culinary team and translating that to on floor processes and support to ensure smooth rollouts of new products, equipment and/or processes.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives that enhance the new product development process by; actively participating in and encouraging continuous improvement to enhance our win rate, reduce our costs, improve our new product scale up and expedite our speed to market.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Degree in Food Science / Food Engineering with a strong functional Baking Science background. 5 – 8 years’ experience in manufacturing required.
• Experience with designing and working on new products through concept, prototyping and commercialization within a manufacturing environment.
• Strong re-engineering knowledge / experience
• Recipe / Formulation and raw material knowledge / experience.
• Strong Bench skills when comes to recipe testing and development
• Team oriented when large sample requests come in
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Working knowledge of MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel), SharePoint, D365 systems
• Self-directed with initiative; responsible for managing own projects and ensuring all timelines are met or exceeded
• Ability/willingness to work off hours or extended amounts of time during product scale ups.
• Ability/willingness to travel up to 40% of the time.

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